The grammatical genus doesn't have anything to do with sexuality. It is arbitrary otherwise and difficult to learn, true. Lawyer is masculine in German, plurals are always feminine.
> they were chosen based on some gender association that often boils down to misogyny
No. They were explicitly not chosen for this reason. There are some exceptions maybe, but the whole debate is based on false assumptions.
There are languages which don't do this of course. I don't see any problems that affect one country but not the other.
No.
> they were chosen based on some gender association that often boils down to misogyny
No. They were explicitly not chosen for this reason. There are some exceptions maybe, but the whole debate is based on false assumptions.
There are languages which don't do this of course. I don't see any problems that affect one country but not the other. No.